ASPECTS AND CHARACTERISTICS
THE RENAISSANCE WAS, IN TOTAL, A CULTURAL MOVEMENT. RENAISSANCE MEANS "REBIRTH" IN WHICH HUMANISM WAS CELEBRATED.
THE RENAISSANCE WAS, IN TOTAL, A CULTURAL MOVEMENT. RENAISSANCE MEANS "REBIRTH" IN WHICH HUMANISM WAS CELEBRATED.
- The renaissance first began in the fragmented city - states of Italy. Italy was the powerhouse of the Renaissance. At that time it was divided into independent states. The Renaissance also spread through southern France and Spain, and influenced northern Europe.
- By the end of the 15th century, Rome had displaced Florence as the principal center of Renaissance art, reaching a high point under the powerful and ambitious Pope Leo X (a son of Lorenzo de’ Medici). Three great masters–Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and Raphael–dominated the period known as the High Renaissance, which lasted roughly from the early 1490s until the sack of Rome by the troops of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V of Spain in 1527. Leonardo (1452-1519) was the ultimate “Renaissance man”.
- Leonardo’s best-known works, including the “Mona Lisa” (1503-05), “The Virgin of the Rocks” (1485) and the fresco “The Last Supper” (1495-98), showcase his unparalleled ability to portray light and shadow, as well as the physical relationship between figures–humans, animals and objects alike–and the landscape around them.